This is a place for any extant garments in private collections from about 1941 back. There is no beginning date. The only rule is that it can't be currently in a museum and must be before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I mostly post items I've seen on ebay, etsy, or other auction sites so we will continue to have a record of them for research purposes. If you have antique clothing in your collection, please, email me pictures of them and I will gladly add them to this site.

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Friday, December 23, 2011

Childern's Dress Early Bustle Era

Offering an outstanding civil war era child’s dress from a local Pennsylvania Farm estate. This estate was chock full of antiques from generations. The dress is printed cotton... It is embellished with meticulously crafted lace on the sleeves and entirely hand sewn. The sewing is so miniscule; we had to count the stitches under magnification. The sewing is executed at an excruciating 20 stitches per inch. The dress measures 19.5” shoulder to hem, 24 waist and 26” chest. The back secures with woven tape ties and pins at shoulder. The dress has numerous holes (too many to count). The holes primarily appear to be from the dye in the fabric. There is a section of lace missing from one shoulder. There is a tear in the back opening as shown. The fabric is still surprisingly resilient. Guaranteed authentic Victorian garment from the civil war era roughly 149 years old and not a recent reproduction or import.

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Second, I love this little dress. It looks to have some sort of drawstring back. Not the fullness to the back while the front is nearly flat. I'm tempted to put this in the 1870's because of that but the sleeve shape is more inline with the 1860's.